Is­lam­abad com­ply­ing ....

“The US gov­ern­ment seeks to part­ner more closely with Pak­istan on a fur­ther en­hanced out­reach cam­paign for in­dus­try to fully un­der­stand and im­ple­ment Pak­istan’s ex­port con­trol re­quire­ments, as well as to be­gin a di­a­logue on con­trols on con­ven­tional weapons and re­lated dual-use tech­nolo­gies,” the re­port said.

The re­port pre­sented to the Congress men­tions that Pak­istan par­tic­i­pated, de­vel­oped, and de­liv­ered a se­ries of tech­ni­cal train­ings to re­spon­si­ble gov­ern­ment li­cens­ing and en­force­ment of­fi­cials for the proper iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of dual-use com­modi­ties that could be used to cre­ate WMDs and/or their de­liv­ery sys­tems. Over­all, Pak­istan was a com­mit­ted part­ner that un­der­took great ef­forts to build its ex­port con­trol ca­pa­bil­i­ties.

The US gov­ern­ment also wished to be­gin a di­a­logue on con­trols on con­ven­tional weapons and re­lated dual-use tech­nolo­gies, the state de­part­ment said adding, Pak­istan is a con­struc­tive and ac­tive par­tic­i­pant in the Nu­clear Se­cu­rity Sum­mit process has worked to strengthen its strate­gic trade con­trols, in­clud­ing up­dat­ing its na­tional ex­port con­trol list.—AP